If you, who saw the wounds on Lucy’s throat, and saw the wounds so similar on the child’s at the hospital; if you, who saw the coffin empty last night and full to-day with a woman who have not change only to be more rose and more beautiful in a whole week, after she die—if you know of this and know of the white figure last night that brought the child to the churchyard, and yet of your own senses you did not believe, how, then, can I expect Arthur, who know none of those things, to believe?
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

In the preceding chapter we saw that there are two sorts of knowledge: knowledge of things, and knowledge of truths.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

All our knowledge, both knowledge of things and knowledge of truths, rests upon acquaintance as its foundation.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

We have first to distinguish knowledge of things and knowledge of truths.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

There is a confusion, when this use of the word 'nature' is employed, between knowledge of things and knowledge of truths.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Her messenger did his errand excellent well and returned to Tunis, whilst Gerbino, hearing this and 215 knowing that his grandfather had given the King of Tunis assurance, knew not what to do.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The subjects of the Phaedrus (exclusive of the short introductory passage about mythology which is suggested by the local tradition) are first the false or conventional art of rhetoric; secondly, love or the inspiration of beauty and knowledge, which is described as madness; thirdly, dialectic or the art of composition and division; fourthly, the true rhetoric, which is based upon dialectic, and is neither the art of persuasion nor knowledge of the truth alone, but the art of persuasion founded on knowledge of truth and knowledge of character; fifthly, the superiority of the spoken over the written word.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

[Pg 171] has been studied, our knowledge of the animal kingdom has been vastly increased, and yet there is hardly a beast bred in the farm-yard today with which the men who made stone weapons were not acquainted and which they had not tamed.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He bade for proud Lyborg of red gold a store, But he could the lily obtain nevermore. page 25 p. 25 THE FAITHFUL KING OF THULE A king so true and steady In Thule lived of old; To him his dying lady
— from The Verner Raven, The Count of Vendel's Daughter, and Other Ballads by George Borrow

“If it is true that Rochester was financially embarrassed and forged checks on the Metropolis Trust Company, it establishes another motive for the killing of Turnbull,” argued Kent.
— from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

His pen paused, and then in the wrist of his right hand and in the fingers that still held his pen he felt a curious imperative kind of twitching, and knew that they wanted to write of their own volition, as it were, though it was not his copy that they were concerned with.
— from Across the Stream by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

There shall be Kings of Thule after kings are gone.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

In Blount and Morgan counties (1869) former members of the Ku Klux organized the Anti Ku Klux along the lines of the Ku Klux, held regular meetings, and continued their [Pg 691] midnight deviltry as before.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

[*] These improvised connections were generally determined by considerations of vicinity; the gods of conterminous principalities were married as the children of kings of two adjoining kingdoms are married, to form or to consolidate relations, and to establish bonds of kinship between rival powers whose unremitting hostility would mean the swift ruin of entire peoples.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

Do not all that we know of the animal kingdom—all that naturalists have accumulated of facts and all that they concede to be the absence of facts—show that there is a clear and well-defined limitation to the power of natural selection, as well as to the power of that other agency which is called sexual selection? Grant that this agency of natural selection began to operate at a period, the commencement of which is as remote as figures can describe; that the struggle for life began as soon as there was an organized being existing in numbers sufficiently large to be out of proportion to the supply of food; that the sexual selection began at the same time, and that both together have been operating ever since among the different species of animals that have success
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

Above two thousand years ago, there reigned over the kingdom of Tonga, a king, whose name was Abdallah.
— from The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding

For the kingdom of Tribalibot, and Kaucasus' golden strand, Whatsoe'er shall be writ of riches in Christian or paynim land, 840 Yea, even the Grail and its glory, they had failèd the hurt to cure Which at Pelrapär was my portion, or the grief that I here endure!
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century